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SPRING BOARD WAGON.

No. 264,911. PatentedSlept. 26,1882.

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WILLIAM H. vines,

UNITED STATES PATENT FFICE OF MELROSE, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO JOHN O. WING, OF SAME PLACE.

SPRING-BOARD WAGON.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 264,911, dated September 26, 1882,

'- Application filed May s,1es2. (No model.)

supporting-springs which are placed betweenthe spring-boards and the head-block at the front ends of the boards, and between the rear ends of the latter and the rear axle.

In the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, there are three fig uresillustratin g my invention, the same letterreference for the designation of the several parts being used in all of them.

'Figure 1 shows in a perspective view the device and its parts containing my invention and as appearing with the position of one of the boardsindicated bya dottedline. Fig.2 shows a vertical section taken through one of the top and bottom springs, head-block, and front axle where the board attaches. Fig. 3 illustrates a front elevation of one set of the springs and, in part, the head-block and front axle.

The several parts of the device are designated by letter-reference, and their cooperating connection described as' followsi There are'two upper springs and two lower springs attached to each of the ends of the sprin g-boards B B, thelatter board being designated bya dotted line. The upper springs, S S, are C-shaped, and their lower united ends are attached to the under side of thehead-block per springs where the boards attach to the bar A. Where the lower ends of the springs S S attach to the head-block they are eyeleted or journaled to receive the arms of the inverted stirrup D, the bar of the latter and the flat bar connecting the lower ends of the springs S S beingplaced side by side beneath the headblock, and there secured to the latter by the clips U G. The rear upper springs, S, and the rear lower springs, S of each set are connected to the rear axle in relatively the same manner as the springs S and S at the front are connected with the head-block, the upper springs in both cases projecting outwardly from their attachment to the boards and head-block and boards and axle, and the lower springs projectin g inwardly from such attachment toward each other, with the head-block and rear axle connected by the reach R. The boards have thus a set of springs at each end, connected, as

7 before described, with the head-block at the parts independently of the peculiar means by which the parts are mechanically attached, I do not limit my invention of this combination of elements as formed, andrelatively placed to co-operate, to their further combination with the specific means by which they attach to each other, for by the use of any equivalent means they may be connected so as to perform the same office in the same manner. Ifdesired, the stirrups D, placed inthe upper ends of the upper springs, S, may be omitted and the bar-connection shown at A substituted therefor, and so, also, the inverted and clipped stirrup D,

connecting the lower ends of the spring S may be dispensed with and the flat bar connection shown at A be used in itsstead.

With the wagon-"seat placed upon the boards thus combined and arranged with springs which connect the boards with the head-block and the rear axle a very easy-riding vehicle is produced, which has all the advantages of a reach wagon and buokboard combined, and without some of the objectionable features of the latter. 7

Having thus described my invention, whatI claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, 1s

1. In a spring-board wagon, the combination of the spring-boards B B and the springs S S and S S at each end of the boards, and the said springs at the front connecting the boards with the head-block and at the rear connecting the boards with the back axle, substantially as herein shown and described.

2. In a spring-board wagon, the combination of the spring-boards B B at each of their ends connected with the upper springs, S S, and the lower springs, S S by means of the stirrup D on the former and the flat connecting-bara on thelatter, and the upper springs, S S, at the front having their lower united ends clipped to the head-block and at the rear to the back axle, with the springs S S connected with the head-block at the front and the back axle at the rear by means of the attached inverted stirrup D, as herein shown and described.

Signed at Troy, New York, this 1st day of May, 1882.

WILLIAM H. VINES. Witnesses:

W. E. HAGAN,

CHARLES S. BRINTNALL. 

